you guys are really cool keeping the thread going and interesting and i need to say thanks again

wow... where do i start? Coral, i'm really glad you're staying involved... ive only seen people sing in tongues in documentaries.. it was a show about churches in the Southern U.S. ..

to my understanding, mandalas are always round, the circle... in Nazca, the monkeys tail is a mandala... not the monkey... but then again, the tail and body form use the same geometric principles...

an intersting and probably confusing thing for people to understand at first is that mandalas contain elements of physical and spiritual properties.. as Jung had described the human personality, a collection of thoughts and feelings ... and ... their paired opposites combined, create the complete personality...

so in every mandala, there are all good things, its paired opposite and collectively, it is a whole...

back to the monkey.. from my point of view, only the tail is a mandala.. the rest is a monkey body...

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Probably a dumb question, but if the earth is the circle/sphere then these maybe could be the images for it
as well as pyramids and other large spiritual structures

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many of the Earths ancient sacred sites are on a hemispherical cirle.. id need to check, but the line of sites circles the Earth approx 27 degrees angle above the present equator and is argued by some to represent a previous equator line at a time in Earths history before a physical "tilt" occured.... (this theory would explain a lot if true) ... nonetheless.. the Ancient Line of Sacred Sites is very real and line up in just this way... and Nazca, The Great Pyramids, Stonehenge, and several others are on the Lines' connecting points..

Chocolate, you're very fortunate to have visited Israel and the Pueblans... i would call that part of the Grand Design..

i should have presented the warning more gently? yes, you chose the exact one in question... i didnt intend to take you to the dark place by asking...

may i comment on the emotional/spiritual tone i recieve as i read your words?

i hear the words of someone very in touch with her spiritual center... i feel your confident security when talking of your safe zone, your protections, your direction...

i hear a willing servitude to the Greater that you envision...

i sense a becoming and fulfilling ... i imagine you as a physical person, in a place in the circle... i imagine the effectiveness of your prayers...

sorry if that was too personal...

for myself, i have similar protections... i continually re-focus, re-question my own self... carefully directing, and asking for direction to the place my heart wishes to be... steering away from dead ends... opting away from time wasting...

at this point, the thinking and soul searching have largely subsided... i now understand a feeling and when it is present, i know my mind/heart/soul are in the place ive so long waited to find... safe in the arms of One who made me... i dont need to intellectualise myself to that place much anymore... its like a room in my mind and i can just go and be there... an inner sanctuary...

i think for me, "i feel" God inside me because that is the natural way for my physical body to function... i cannot "feel" what is outside me, only imagine it...

i believe that Spirit talks to each of us as individuals .. i believe we each have different "jobs" or "roles" to fulfill... for you, the mystery leads you to crop circles.. it sounds like crop circles are for you what mandalas are for me?

in that case, research, study, dream, fantasize, open and let the information come into you... a willingness and a readiness are all thats required and Creator knows your soul better than any...

whew! ... need a short break....